HIS 3. Curing the mind: History of psychotherapy in the modern world
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Historie,
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Historie,
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HIS 3. Curing the mind: History of psychotherapy in the
modern world
Does everyone need a therapist? Who is psychotherapy for, and how
did its scope grow to regularly include those who do not suffer
from any mental illness? This course aims to cover the development
of modern modes of psychotherapeutic intervention - from hypnosis
and suggestion to rational persuasion, re-education and work
therapy, bibliotherapy and film psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and
cognitive and behavioural approaches. It explores how ideas about
the mind and its plasticity have changed in response to broader
historical, political and social contexts, and how they shaped
efforts to cure or ameliorate psychological pathology and
suffering. In this vein, the course considers not only historical
documents, but also cultural texts – literature and film, in
particular - that inform and are informed by psychological
paradigms. We can think, for example, about literature’s shifting
depictions of character psychology, as well as the methods of
interpretation that literary scholars have shared with
psychologists. We are also interested in how different forms of
psychotherapy were popularized in film. The course brings the
historical development of psychotherapeutic interventions in
dialogue with biological psychiatry and psychopharmaceutical
revolutions, asking how these different models of the brain (and of
‘human nature’) have co-existed and interacted throughout the
modern period. Furthermore, the course reflects on the rise of
psychotherapy as one of the most important health-related
disciplines of the 20th century, asking how ideas and
narratives of modern selfhood fostered the belief in the supreme
importance of attending to the health of the mind. The course
offers a global historical overview with a focus on the
English-speaking world.
MA-Area 3: Academic Writing with Focus on Source Analysis
(HHIK03911E)
[Kandidatuddannelsen i historie, 2022-ordningen]
Seminar / lectures / other: student-led presentations
- Elizabeth Lunbeck: The psychiatric persuasion:
Knowledge, gender and power in modern America
- Edward Shorter: A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the
Asylum to the Age of Prozac)
- Anne Harrington: Mind fixers: Psychiatry’s troubled
search for the biology of mental illness
- Andreas Meyer: Sites of the unconscious
- Jonathan Metzl: The Protest Psychosis: How
schizophrenia became a black disease
- Dagmar Herzog: Cold War Freud
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98 32.
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Other
- Exam registration requirements
Criteria for exam assessment
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 56
- Preparation
- 203
- Exam Preparation
- 129,5
- English
- 388,5
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- HHIK04936U
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedulegroup
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See schedule link
- Studyboard
- Study Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting department
- SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Ana Antic
(9-467366334673796e68456d7a7233707a336970)
Coordinator - Peter Leese (5-716a6a786a456d7a7233707a336970)
- Christina Jolan Fogarasi (3-666b69436b7870316e7831676e)
- Lamia Moghnie (5-7166726e66456d7a7233707a336970)
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